[skr]

What does the victim’s autism have to do with anything?

[Albion Wilde]

What does the victim’s autism have to do with anything?

Some possible reasons to mention it:

The child's behavior was unusual or difficult, and frustrated the babysitter, contributing to the urge to murder the child;

the child required a more specialized caregiver that the unmarried parents did not or could not afford to provide.

Reporters are so used to supplying reasons to pity the criminal of color, it just pops right out of their keyboard.